MEMORY SICKNESS is Phong Nguyen's first collection of short stories. His work has appeared in such publications as Agni, Boulevard, Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, North American Review, and Massachusetts Review. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Central Missouri, where he teaches fiction writing and edits the journal Pleiades. He lives in Warrensburg with his wife--the artist Sarah Nguyen--and their three children.